Wire • Secure Messenger
55
Quality Score
Solid
Wire • Secure Messenger
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Wire • Secure Messenger is an iOS app from Wire Swiss GmbH in the Business category, currently rated 3.1★ across 904 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$1.4K/mo · 36K ratings · 3.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (117 MB) | +$26K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$38K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~1.7× build cost (break-even+)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
58K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12K
Daily active
3.7K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 32/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
2.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.07★ across 904 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.01 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($16K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (20 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (904 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v4.20.0
New:
• Show a team admin-specific message when integrated apps are disabled
• Warning text for connection requests
• Drive:
• Share multiple photos at once
• Your guests can access the Shared Drive
• Icon to show offline availability for files
Fix:… Full release notes →
• Show a team admin-specific message when integrated apps are disabled
• Warning text for connection requests
• Drive:
• Share multiple photos at once
• Your guests can access the Shared Drive
• Icon to show offline availability for files
Fix:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Wire • Secure Messenger
- Developer
- Wire Swiss GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.wearezeta.zclient.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, LT, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SL, ES, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Collaborate without Compromise
- Description
- Collaborate without compromise with Wire, the trusted platform for millions worldwide. Stay in control with end-to-end encryption that's invisible, flexible collaboration, and intuitive user interface. Join now for free and boost your productivity.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $15.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- linkedin.com/company/wire-secure-comm…
- GitHub
- github.com/wireapp
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github github.com/wireapp · linkedin linkedin.com/company/wire-secure-comm…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- wire.com/en/contact-sales
- About page
- wire.com/en/use-cases/secure-ms-teams…
📈Ratings growth912 ratings+5% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Communicate and collaborate securely and easily. From anywhere. Always.
Wire is secured with end-to-end encryption and makes life easier.
Get everything done in one app.
• Simple to use and beautifully designed
• A single tool to make small teams and complex organizations more productive
• Security and privacy at the core
Wire offers a free version for friends and family.
Work securely, wherever you are
• Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, send pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption… View full description on the official store →
Wire is secured with end-to-end encryption and makes life easier.
Get everything done in one app.
• Simple to use and beautifully designed
• A single tool to make small teams and complex organizations more productive
• Security and privacy at the core
Wire offers a free version for friends and family.
Work securely, wherever you are
• Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, send pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 117 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v4.20.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, ET +15📂 Business💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.07 (dropped 0.33★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.75 → 3.40 (improved 0.65★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.30 (dropped 0.37★)
2016-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 807 reviews across 8 markets● 49% positive · ● 20% neutral · ● 30% negative · Rating drift: -1.01★ (declining — recent 50: 2.06★ vs lifetime: 3.07★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.44
🇨🇦 CA
+0.40
🇦🇺 AU
+0.27
🇺🇸 US
+0.20
🇫🇷 FR
+0.09
🇯🇵 JP
+0.05
🇧🇷 BR
+0.04
🇩🇪 DE
-0.36
Top praise themes
end end ×10 keep work ×7 open source ×7 call quality ×7 please fix ×6 video calls ×6 please add ×6 phone number ×6
Top complaint themes
phone number ×25 nicht mehr ×13 please fix ×11 job scam ×11 job interview ×10 personal information ×10 job scams ×9 fake job ×8
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 8.6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.20833★ | 48 | 3.20833★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.31818★ | 22 | 3.31818★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.58025★ | 81 | 3.58025★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.44489★ | 753 | 3.44489★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.35345★ | 116 | 3.35345★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.33333★ | 120 | 3.33333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.40323★ | 62 | 3.40323★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.35★ | 80 | 3.35★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.07473★ | 910 | 3.07473★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Wire • Secure Messenger: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 904 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Wire • Secure Messenger make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wire • Secure Messenger earns approximately $15K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes Wire • Secure Messenger?▴
Wire • Secure Messenger is published by Wire Swiss GmbH on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Wire • Secure Messenger's BU Score?▴
Wire • Secure Messenger has a BU Score of 55/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.